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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 153 / Thursday, August 12, 2021 / Notices
exception under 2 CFR 170.110b, the applicant must have the necessary processes and systems in place to comply with the reporting requirements should the applicant receive funding.
See 2 CFR 170.200b.
An applicant, unless excepted under 2 CFR 25.110b, c, or d, is required to:
a Be registered in SAM before submitting its application;
b Provide a valid DUNS number in its application; and c Continue to maintain an active SAM registration with current information at all times during which it has an active Federal award or an application or plan under consideration by a Federal awarding agency.
The Federal awarding agency may not make a federal award to an applicant until the applicant has complied with all applicable DUNS and SAM
requirements and, if an applicant has not fully complied with the requirements by the time the Federal awarding agency is ready to make a Federal award, the Federal awarding agency may determine that the applicant is not qualified to receive a Federal award and use that determination as a basis for making a Federal award to another applicant.
As required by the Office of Management and Budget OMB, all grant applications must provide a DUNS
number when applying for Federal grants, on or after October 1, 2003.
Organizations can receive a DUNS
number at no cost by calling the dedicated toll-free number at 1866
7055711 or via internet at http
fedgov.dnb.com/webform. Additional information concerning this requirement can be obtained on the Grants.gov website at http
www.grants.gov. Similarly, applicants may register for SAM at https
www.sam.gov or by calling 1866606
8220.
The applicant must provide documentation that they are registered in SAM and their DUNS number. If the applicant does not provide documentation that they are registered in SAM and their DUNS number, the application will not be considered for funding.
You no longer must complete the following forms for acceptance of a federal award. This information is now collected through your registration or annual recertification in SAM.gov in the Financial Assistance General Certifications and Representations section:
Form AD1047, Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, and
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Other Responsibility Matters-Primary Covered Transactions.
Form AD1048, Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and Voluntary Exclusion.
Lower Tier Covered Transactions.
Form AD1049, Certification Regarding Drug-Free Workplace Requirements Grants.
Form AD3031, Assurance Regarding Felony Conviction or Tax Delinquent Status for Corporate Applicants.
D. Instructions and Resources Instructions and additional resources for compiling and submitting an application are available on the Emergency Rural Health Care Grant Program web page at: https
www.rd.usda.gov/erhc.
E. Submission Dates and Times The deadline date for applications to be considered for funding is specified in the DATES section at the beginning of this notice.
VI. Application Review Information Applications will first be reviewed to determine if they meet the eligibility requirements in this Notice. If an application is deemed ineligible, the application will not be processed, evaluated, or scored. The Agency will notify ineligible applicants in writing regarding the reasons for ineligibility.
Applications deemed eligible will be evaluated based on the criteria below.
Complete applications received by the deadline specified in this Notice will be scored and ranked to determine which applications are funded. Eligible and complete Track One, Recovery applications received after the deadline specified in this Notice will be reviewed and processed according to the criteria below for as long as funding remains available.
The Agency will review each grant application to determine eligibility. The applicant may be asked to provide additional information or documentation to assist the Agency with this determination.
A. Evaluation Criteria Applications will be evaluated based only on the information provided in the application. References to websites or publications will not be reviewed, so full documentation and support of application criteria is encouraged.
Scoring and ranking of applications will be a function of the criteria below.
1 Track 1, Recovery applicants will receive a score based on the criteria below maximum 100 points:
a. Distressed Communities/
Communities below the poverty line
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threshold priority. 15 points will be given for facilities located in distressed communities according to the EIG index or communities below the poverty line.
For applications supporting two or more facility locations, these priority points will only be given if 50 percent or more of the requested award funds will support distressed communities or those communities below the poverty line.
EIGs Distressed Community Map can be found here: https
ruraldevelopment.maps.arcgis.com/
apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=
06a26a91d074426d944d22715a90311e.
Maximum 15 points will be given.
b. Income priority. If the median household income of the facilitys service area is below the higher of the poverty line or i. 60 percent of the State nonmetropolitan median household income: 20 points.
ii. 70 percent of the State nonmetropolitan median household income: 15 points.
iii. 80 percent of the State nonmetropolitan median household income: 10 points; or iv. 90 percent of the State nonmetropolitan median household income: 5 points.
c. Population priority. If the facility is located in a rural community having a population, according to the most recent decennial census, of i. 5,000 or less: 15 points.
ii. 5,001 to 10,000: 10 points; or iii. 10,001 to 15,000: 5 points.
d. COVID19 vaccine administration or testing priority. 20 points will be given to applications that directly support activities to administer COVID
19 vaccines or conduct COVID19
testing. Maximum 20 points will be given.
e. COVID19 Impacts priority. 20
points will be given to applications with projects located in one of the top 10
percent of counties or county equivalents based upon county risk score in the United States. The risk score is calculated based on COVID19
confirmed cases per 10,000
population; Distressed Communities Index DCI; Job Loss Projections Bureau of Labor Statistics data and the Center for Disease Controls CDC
Social Vulnerability Index SVI.
Counties that qualify for the COVID19
impact priority points are listed on the RD web page at https
www.rd.usda.gov/priority-points. For applications supporting two or more facility locations, these priority points will only be given if 50 percent or more of the requested award funds will support these high COVID19 impact
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